At 13:48 07/10/25, Martin Duerst wrote:
>I have listed this as issue:
>http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#bidi-fix-example-113
>
>I will check this through. Looking at
>http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/BidiExamples,
>in general the green (displayed by the browser) and blue
>(calculated by an implementation of mine) lines should match,
>but for example 9, they indeed don't match.
I have checked my implementation, and found the bug, and fixed it.
As a result of this fix, the Hebrew and Arabic versions are no longer
different, so I have changed the text, too. The result seems to match
with the implementations of major browsers. I'm going to move this
issue to 'tentatively closed'.
Regards, Martin.
>>2) It might be appropriate to add example 11 as follows:
>>
>> Example 11 (allowed but very confusing):
>> Logical representation: "http://ab.CDEFGH.123ij/kl/mn/op.html"
>> Visual representation: "http://ab.123.HGFEDCij/kl/mn/op.html"
>> Components consisting of numbers and left-to-right characters are
>> allowed, but these may interact with adjacent RTL components in ways
>> that are not easy to predict.
>
>I've listed this as:
>http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#bidi-add-example-114
>This is indeed a good point; for backwards compatibility reasons,
>it is difficult to disallow such cases, but they'd indeed better
>not exist.
>
>Regards, Martin.
>
>
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